News of the Warner Bros. plan to remake William Golding's classic novel spread quickly through the internet grapevine, and it's not just the the all-female cast that has fans up in arms. People are also questioning why the new version is being written and directed by two men, Scott McGehee and David Siegel.

"Lord of the Flies, but with women, and also written and directed by two men! This couldn't POSSIBLY miss the mark," one person joked.

GOOD: A female-centric Lord of the Flies!BAD: A female-centric Lord of the Flies written by... two men.https://t.co/26CBGu4lMj

In case you never studied it in school, Lord of the Flies centers on a group of boys who become stranded on a desert island with no adults, and attempt to self-govern, ultimately the boys' attempts to create a society descend into chaos and violence.

"We want to do a very faithful but contemporized adaptation of the book, but our idea was to do it with all girls rather than boys," Siegel told Deadline.

"It is a timeless story that is especially relevant today, with the interpersonal conflicts and bullying, and the idea of children forming a society and replicating the behavior they saw in grown-ups before they were marooned."

McGehee added: "It shifts things in a way that might help people see the story anew. It breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression."

Lord of the Flies has been made into a movie twice before, in 1963 by Peter Brook and in 1990 by Harry Hook.

It seems like an all-female movie remake night be this year's Ghostbusters.

News of the Warner Bros. plan to remake William Golding's classic novel spread quickly through the internet grapevine, and it's not just the the all-female cast that has fans up in arms. People are also questioning why the new version is being written and directed by two men, Scott McGehee and David Siegel.